Founded in 2012, the affiliated kindergarten (hereinafter referred to as the overseas affiliated kindergarten) with the same campus as Beijing Haidian Foreign Chinese Experimental School was rated as a first-class kindergarten in Beijing by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission in only 6 years. Overseas Affiliated Kindergarten is affiliated to Haidian Foreign Chinese Education Group, and shares an area of 260,000 square meters with Haidian Foreign Chinese Primary and Secondary Schools, with a unique outdoor activity venue.
The hardware facilities of overseas kindergartens are built in the form of amusement parks, with 2,000 square meters of children's exclusive playgrounds and 16,000 square meters of woods, lawns and gardens. There is a small zoo in the park where more than 300 animals live. In addition, the park is also equipped with nine outdoor landscape experience areas, including 3D cinema, car story, happy farm, fishing master, growth park, snow white and other elements, all of which are familiar animation scenes or characters to children. In addition to the children's activity center, Waihai Affiliated Kindergarten also has a gymnasium, table tennis center, baseball field, horse farm, swimming pool and other sports venues. Each classroom has a spacious play space, which is separate from the learning space for classes, and the whole kindergarten can accommodate more than 400 preschool children.
Overseas kindergartens attach great importance to foreign language teaching. In addition to the basic children's game theme teaching, overseas kindergartens arrange daily English teaching, and foreign churches provide one-on-one speaking and reading instruction for children. Different from ordinary bilingual kindergartens, overseas kindergartens also provide separate teaching in French, Japanese and German, in addition to English as a compulsory course, parents can choose other language courses according to their children's interests. At the same time, overseas kindergartens also provide a rich choice of courses for the development of children's interests and hobbies, such as piano lessons, physical fitness lessons, baseball lessons, equestrian lessons, taekwondo classes and other talent courses. In addition, the school provides 180 independent piano rooms, and teachers can provide one-on-one piano tutoring for children.
Overseas kindergartens adopt different teaching systems for children in different classes. According to the different training directions, overseas kindergartens are divided into comprehensive quality American cardenal classes, international classes, and comprehensive quality classes. The comprehensive quality of the American Carden class English courses are all taught in groups using the textbook system of the American Carden, and the English teaching level is the deepest; The international class is taught in both Chinese and English, and each class is equipped with a native English teacher and a Chinese teacher to jointly manage the class. The comprehensive quality class is an ordinary class, and there are also English courses, but the level of English teaching is not as high as that of the other two types of classes. In addition to the classes set up during the semester, there are also separate winter and summer vacation care classes for parents who are unable to take care of their children during the winter and summer vacations. The school has a daily evening nursery school, which can be as late as 19:15, but there is no school bus service and parents are required to pick them up.
Overseas preschool recruits preschool children aged 2-6 years old, and the tuition fee is expensive. The tuition fee per semester for the comprehensive quality class is 65,000 yuan, the tuition fee for the comprehensive quality American Carden class is 76,000 yuan per semester, and the international class is as high as 100,000 yuan, and the meal fee is about 4,500 yuan per semester. In addition, the school requires a one-time payment of 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan for the purchase of equipment and utensils, including bedding and school uniforms. The average tuition fee for winter and summer vacation care classes is about 6,000 yuan.
Even though the cost is high, the popularity of overseas kindergarten registration has not been affected by the cost in the slightest. Most of the children who graduate from overseas affiliated kindergartens can directly enter Haidian Foreign Chinese Primary School after testing, which is also very attractive to many parents. However, it should be noted that Haidian Foreign Chinese Primary School needs children to be able to adapt to living in school, otherwise it will affect admission.
Several major schools of teaching about private kindergartens:
Nowadays, in private schools, various teaching methods are always proposed, some promote authentic British early childhood teaching, and some claim to be teachers of the European and American teaching system. No matter what kind of teaching school it is, there is no superiority or inferiority in early childhood teaching.
Montessori: The biggest feature of Montessori is that the teaching of mixed ages and special teaching aids, the setting and use of teaching aids need to be strictly in accordance with Montessori standards, so that children can start from life practice exercises, spontaneous active learning and exploration, including life, sensory, language, mathematics, science and other aspects.
Waldorf: Waldorf promotes play-based learning, with an early education focus on hands-on and crafted activities, and an environment conducive to innovative play. Waldorf advocates satisfying children's nature as much as possible, getting in touch with nature, and does not recommend children to teach mathematics and Chinese characters too early.
Reggio Emilia: Lessons are in the form of projects and projects, and children can express and present their learning outcomes in any form. Teachers need to be trained in the arts, and the school has dedicated art studios for teachers and students.
Orff Music Teaching: Advocate that music is no longer just melody and rhythm, music is related to children's rhymes, rhythm, dance, drama performances and even visual arts such as painting and sculpture, emphasizing that through speaking, singing, dancing, playing, drama performance, painting and other forms of music and dance, children can discover themselves, so as to cultivate people's creativity, self-confidence, concentration, cooperative spirit, reaction ability and whole personality development.
Multiple Intelligences Theory: Emphasizes that each person understands knowledge and constructs their own understanding of things in their own way. The theory of multiple intelligences believes that every student has both a strong and a weak area of intelligence, and that each student should transfer the characteristics of his or her strong field to the weak field while fully demonstrating his or her strong field, so as to promote the development of his or her weak field as much as possible.
In fact, most kindergartens integrate major teaching theories or teaching methods, and many teaching activities are also designed based on the above teaching theories. For parents, it is more important to find an educational method that is suitable for their child's character growth, cooperate with the teacher's teaching activities, and correctly guide the child, so that the child can truly harvest a happy and meaningful childhood.
